Accompanying their mother-in-law to the borders of their own land would probably be an act of Oriental courtesy. Naomi with no less courtesy presses them to return. The mention of the mother’s house,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Story of Naomi: Orpah and Ruth _ 1. Naomi and her sorrows (Ruth 1:1)_ 2. The return (Ruth 1:6) 3. Orpah turning back, Ruth cleaving (Ruth 1:14) 4. Naomi and...
RUTH AND NAOMI. Bethlehem ceased for a time to be what its name signified a house of bread. Under stress of famine Elimelech, with his wife Naomi, left his Judæ an home, and went to sojourn in the lan...
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_to her mother's house_ although Ruth's father was alive, Ruth 2:11; but the natural place for the female members of the family would be their mother's tent or house, cf. Genesis 24:28; Genesis 24:67;...
_Ruth's Determination to Remain With Naomi Ruth 1:8-18_ 8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go return each to her mother's house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the d...
_AND NAOMI SAID UNTO HER TWO DAUGHTERS IN LAW, GO, RETURN EACH TO HER MOTHER'S HOUSE: THE LORD DEAL KINDLY WITH YOU, AS YE HAVE DEALT WITH THE DEAD, AND WITH ME._ Go, return each to her mother's hous...
THE EXILE AND THE RETURN OF NAOMI 1. Beth-lehem-judah] two hours' journey S. of Jerusalem, is to be distinguished from Bethlehem in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15). It was but a short distance from Moab, which...
THERE IS A *REDEEMER BOOK OF RUTH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are notes on the Bible text. JESUS SAID, ‘THE SON OF MAN CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE TO *REDEEM MANY PEOPLE’ (MATTHEW 20:28). (‘SON O...
RETURN. — Naomi’s love is all unselfish. The company of Ruth and Orpah would clearly have been a great solace to her, yet she will not sacrifice them to herself. They each had a mother and a home; the...
וַ תֹּ֤אמֶר נָעֳמִי֙ לִ שְׁתֵּ֣י כַלֹּתֶ֔יהָ...
NAOMI'S BURDEN Ruth 1:1 LEAVING the Book of Judges and opening the story of Ruth we pass from vehement outdoor life, from tempest and trouble into quiet domestic scenes. After an exhibition of the gr...
BACK TO BETHLEHEM Ruth 1:1 It was a mistake for Elimelech and his family to have left Bethlehem; God would have sent them bread. The path became darker and darker. Mahlon means _Pining_ and Chilion _...
The Book of Ruth stands in striking contrast to the Book of Judges and yet is closely connected with it. In Judges the national outlook has been presented and so dark has it been as to create the impr...
_Mothers, who had separate apartments from the men. (Calmet) --- Me. They had behaved with great respect and love towards their husbands, and towards Noemi, whom they even wish to accompany. (Menochiu...
The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. There is somewhat very interesting in this account of...
FROM: LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE EARLIER HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. W. Kelly. That the book of Ruth stands most fitly in the place where it is actually found must have been felt by the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The Book of Ruth tells us also of the days of the judges, when there was no king in Israel; but it shews us the fair side of those days, in the o...
AND NAOMI SAID TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS IN LAW,.... When they were come, as it is very probable, to the utmost limits of the land of Moab, and to the borders of the land of Israel: GO, RETURN EACH UNTO H...
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. Ver. 8. _And Naomi said unto her two d...
_Return each to her mother's house_ She desires them to accompany her no farther, but to go back to their own home. And it seems it was usual in Moab, as well as in Israel, for widows to dwell with th...
1 Elimelech driuen by famine into Moab, dieth there. 4 Mahlon and Chilion, hauing married wiues of Moab, die also. 6 Naomi returning homeward, 8 disswadeth her two daughters in law from going with...
And Naomi said unto her daughters-in-law, after they had traversed some distance. GO, RETURN EACH TO HER MOTHER'S HOUSE, the usual place of refuge for young widows; THE LORD DEAL KINDLY WITH YOU, in s...
THE RETURN OF NAOMI WITH RUTH...
DEPARTURE BECAUSE OF FAMINE (vv. 1-5) A famine was in the land of Israel. Why? Because the literal famine was to draw attention to the spiritual famine that came before it, a famine for hearing the...
6-14 Naomi began to think of returning, after the death of her two sons. When death comes into a family, it ought to reform what is amiss there. Earth is made bitter to us, that heaven may be made de...
EACH TO HER MOTHER'S HOUSE; not that they wanted fathers, RUTH 2:11, but because daughters used to converse more frequently with their mothers, and to be most endeared to them, and to dwell in the sam...
Ruth 1:8 Naomi H5281 said H559 (H8799) two H8147 daughters-in-law H3618 Go H3212 (H8798) return H7725 ...
‘ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother's house YHWH deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me. May YHWH grant you that you may fin...
RUTH 1-4 The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field, in its general gossip and its law-suits, more than...
CONTENTS: Naomi departs from Moab and returns with Ruth to Bethlehem. CHARACTERS: God, Naomi, Ruth, Orpah, Elimelech, Mahlon, Chilion. CONCLUSION: When we take God for our Father we must take His pe...
Ruth 1:1. _When the judges ruled,_ about a hundred years before the birth of David. Famines were mostly occasioned by want of rain. Ruth 1:2. _Ephrathites;_ not Ephraimites, but of Ephrath, the old na...
_The Lord deal kindly with you._ NAOMI’S PRAYER FOR HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW I. That it is a duty to pray for those which do either us or ours good. II. That at parting friends are to pray one for anoth...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Ruth 1:8; Ruth 1:10_. AND NAOMI SAID [Then said Naomi] UNTO. The first recorded utterance of Naomi. Cox imagines them having reached the ford of the Arnon [N. boundary...
EXPOSITION RUTH 1:6 THEN—the conjunction in Hebrew is the common generic copulative _and—_she arose. She had been _sitting_, as it were, where her husband had settled, and she now rose up to depart ...
Shall we turn now to the book of Ruth? As we were studying the book of Judges last week, we pointed out that at the end of chapter sixteen, the end of the story of Samson, you actually came to the end...
2 Timothy 1:16; Colossians 3:18; Colossians 3:24; Ephesians 5:22;...
RUTH, THE MOABITESS Ruth 1:6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A study in genealogy. In the last chapter of the Book of Ruth beginning with Ruth 1:17 we read that marvelous announcement, "There is a son born to...
RUTH AND ORPAH Ruth 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us today the story of two characters which were alike in many particulars, and yet, so vitally different and distinct in others. 1. THE TWO...
Mother's house — Because daughters used to converse more frequently with their mothers, and to dwell in the same apartments with them, which then were distinct from those parts of the house where the...